I was forwarded this e-mail by a friend of mine. After reading it, tears were streaming from my eyes. Please do what you can to help this little boy. Maybe if some Republicans read this, they will realize how much we need universal health care.
My name is Billy Evans. I am a very sick little boy. My mother is typing this for me, because I can’t. She is crying. The reason she is so sad is because I’m so sick. I was born without a body. It doesn’t hurt, except when I try to breathe.
The doctors gave me an artificial body. It is a burlap bag filled with leaves. The doctors said that was the best they could do on account of us having no money or insurance.
I would like to have a body transplant, but we need more money. Mommy doesn’t work because she said nobody hires crying people. I said, “Don’t cry, Mommy,” and she hugged my burlap bag. Mommy always gives me hugs, even though she’s allergic to burlap and it makes her sneeze and chafes her
I hope you will help me. You can help me if you forward this email to everyone you know. Forward it to people you don’t know, too. Dr. Johansen said that for every person you forward this email to, Bill Gates will team up with Disney World and send a nickel to NASA. With that funding, NASA will collect prayers from school children all over America and have the astronauts take them up into space so that the angels can hear them better.
Every time you forward this letter, the astronauts can take more prayers to the angels and my dream will be closer to coming true. Please help me. Mommy is so sad, and I want a body. I don’t want my leaves to rot before I turn 10.
If you don’t forward this email, that’s okay. Mommy says you’re a mean and heartless bastard who doesn’t care about a poor little boy with only a head. She says that if you don’t stew in the raw pit of your own guilt-ridden stomach, she hopes you die a long slow horrible death and then burn forever
What kind of cruel person are you that you can’t take five freakin’ minutes to forward this to all your friends so that they can feel guilt and shame about ignoring a poor, bodiless nine-year-old boy?
Please help me. I try to be happy, but it’s hard. I wish I had a kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty that wouldn’t chew on me and try to bury its turds in the leaves of my burlap body. I wish that very much.
Thank You,
Billy “Smiley” Evans
Oh yeah. Those were tears of laughter I was talking about earlier.
Isn’t there a snopes article on the boy with the burlap body?
I can’t remember if there is but I feel I have to break the news to you anyway. You’ve been hoaxed.
Anti rejection drugs don’t work on leaves.
Liberal
December 18, 2002, 1:02pm
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Silentgoldfish said:
And you’ve been whooshed.
Whole lotta whoosing goin’ on!
Liberal
December 18, 2002, 1:11pm
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Sorry, Francesca. I should have previewed.
Liberal
December 18, 2002, 1:13pm
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Ha! I was whooshing YOU!
[sub]Unless Silentgoldfish was being serious, in which case you cannot prove this post exists.[/sub]
Well, it’s kinda like the dark sparkling Folgers Crystals of spam - it sucks just as much as the real thing if you forward it to everyone you know. So, though it’s one of the more palatable pieces of spam I’ve encountered, please don’t email it to everyone you know. Pretty please with sugar on top?
Rosebud
December 18, 2002, 2:40pm
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I sent this one to a couple of friends once, since we have a mutual friend who sends all the really awful stuff to us (because she believes it all!).
Moments later, one of the recipients writes back to me with, “Oh my God! Is that for REAL?!”
Sure it is, Sandy… sure it is…
Don’t worry, 'Bubba , I don’t forward stuff to people, unless it’s work related and they need the info. In which case, it’s not spam…so, um, yeah…
*Originally posted by Rosebud *
Moments later, one of the recipients writes back to me with, “Oh my God! Is that for REAL?!”
Sure it is, Sandy… sure it is… **
You don’t still speak to this person, do you?
Skelji
December 18, 2002, 3:57pm
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*Originally posted by Neurotik *'Bubba , I don’t forward stuff to people, unless it’s work related and they need the info. In which case, it’s not spam…so, um, yeah…
Wait a minute…you pretty much forwarded it to upwards of 27,992 people by posting it here!
Iteki
December 18, 2002, 5:39pm
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Hahhah evil Skleji! Evil!
Anyone remember the excellent and very bitchily written de-bunking spam that was doing the rounds before? It is about not forwarding things. I could do with it for a very dear friend with a large gullability problem.
I do get a kick out of Snopes’ response :
A wonderfully sardonic spoof of the endless “help a dying child” pleas, this too is forwarded to us with “Is this true?” queries attached by people who either have leaf-filled burlap sacks for heads or who think that being skeptical means “I must ask about everything instead of ever relying upon my own brain.” (my bold)
KRC
December 18, 2002, 7:21pm
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I heard the little burlap boy finally did get a new body. He was so happy that he ran across the street to play with his friends, but he forgot to look before he crossed and he was hit by a car and killed.
The moral of the story is quit while you’re a head.
You may laugh, but I saw too rebellious teenagers turned into mulch and used to fertilize a tree, on the Twilight Zone episode on the UPN television network last night.
Then why can I graft a branch onto a tree limb?
Boy, some people!!
